Battery Maint in LEC equipment

Sun Jun 5 04:07:48 UTC 2005

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean at donelan.com]
>Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2005 04:02 AM
>To: 'David Lesher'
>Cc: 'nanog list'
>Subject: Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment
>
>
>On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, David Lesher wrote:
>> Have any NANOG'ers [NANOGites? NANOGees?] run into this? Again, this
>> is LEC owned, LEC maintained, equipment....Do you provide generator
>> power for such in your space?
>
>Generally, the ILECs were the only ones that did this.  I've had multiple
>CLECs (Brooks, MFS, WilTel, etc) install fibermux cabinets, none of them
>provided any backup batteries by default.  They used local building power,
>and we had to make sure they were connected to our backup generator.
>
>If you wanted to pay for it, some of the CLECs would add batteries.  But
>it wasn't part of the base package.
>

All the AT&T pops usually have nice battery and gen sets. That's what I like.

Dee